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African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational text to the study of culture in ever-changing environments, makes an important argument that the dynamism of culture in highly globalised societies such as that of Zimbabwe can be studied from any perspective, but most importantly through careful examination of cultural elements such as memory, oral history and space, among others. While the book makes special reference to Zimbabwe, it profoundly and audaciously dissect and cut across different geographical and cultural spaces through its penetrating interrogation and scrutiny of different issues commonplace in many African contexts and even beyond. The book, written by scholars from different backgrounds and orientations, should appeal to scholars, researchers and students from various disciplines which include but not limited to Cultural Heritage Studies, Policy Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies and African Studies.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. List of Contributors
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Whither African cultures? An introduction
  2. Munyaradzi Mawere
  3. pp. vii-xviii
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  1. 1. Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: The peopling of the modern nation-state
  2. Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana
  3. pp. 1-24
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  1. 2. Western hegemony and conquest of Africa: Imperial hypocrisy and the invasion of African cultures
  2. Munyaradzi Mawere
  3. pp. 25-40
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  1. 3. Legislation and management of heritage landscapes in Zimbabwe
  2. Henry Chiwaura, Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya
  3. pp. 41-64
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  1. 4. Memory, Space and Contestations in Living Traditions: The case of Chitungwiza chaChaminuka Shrine in Zimbabwe
  2. Farai M. Chabata, Henry Chiwaura
  3. pp. 65-80
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  1. 5. The Shona Folktale: An Enduring Legacy
  2. Jacob Mapara
  3. pp. 81-110
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  1. 6. Connoisseurs of traditional medicine: The use and efficacy of traditional medicine in pregnant women’s health care
  2. Jane Sigauke, Henry Chiwaura, Munyaradzi Mawere
  3. pp. 111-134
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  1. 7. Traditional dance as intangible heritage: In defence of the perpetuation of traditional dance and music in Zimbabwe
  2. Tapuwa R Mubaya, Shadreck Dzingayi
  3. pp. 135-160
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  1. 8. Identities, Memoirs and Narratives: The dialectics of Rozvi ethnicity and power in Zimbabwe
  2. Lesley Hatipone Machiridza
  3. pp. 161-178
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  1. 9. Heritage typologies and organisation in Zimbabwe: Questions, insights and policy implications
  2. Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya, Munyaradzi Mawere
  3. pp. 179-208
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  1. 10. Theories of culture: Juxtaposing cultural relativism, ethnocentrism and determinism in contemporary Zimbabwe
  2. Francis Muchemwa, Tapuwa R. Mubaya, Munyaradzi Mawere
  3. pp. 209-226
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  1. 11. Marriage in a globalised world: The effects of globalisation on traditional marriage systems in Zimbabwe
  2. Genius Tevera, Tapuwa Raymond Mubaya
  3. pp. 227-246
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  1. Back Cover
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